Method and electronic equipment for holding multimedia search

Abstract

A method of enabling a search using an electronic device, the method comprising, detecting actuation of a user input dedicated to provide access to a graphical user interface, and presenting, in response to the actuation of the dedicated user input, the graphical user interface for enabling a user to input a search parameter where the search parameter may be any one of a plurality of different types of media.

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technical field [0001] Embodiments of the present invention relate to methods and electronic devices for supporting searches. In particular, it relates to methods and electronic devices for supporting searches where search parameters can be any of a number of different media types. Background technique [0002] Search engines that allow users of electronic devices to search through and retrieve data are well known in the art. The data searched by such search engines may be personal data stored in an electronic device, for example in the device's memory, or may be personal data stored in a computer network such as an intranet or the Internet or Third Party Data. [0003] The data stored can be of a large number of different media types, and the number of media types is increasing all the time. Due to the rapidly increasing number of media types, searching through such data is becoming more important and more time consuming. Accordingly, it would be desirable to provide an...

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Due to the rapidly increasing number of media types, searching through such data is becoming more important as well as more time consuming

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